St. Paul appears as the preaching missionary ( 13: 16 ; 14: 8-9, 19-20 ), whence the Lystrans regarded him as Hermes, St. Barnabas as Zeus ( 14: 12 ).

Insignia are mainly heads of mythological characters or depictions of mythological beasts arranged in a symbolic motif: Apollo, Zeus, Janus, Athena, Hermes, griffin, gorgon, sphinx, hippocamp, bull, snake, eagle, or other creatures who had symbolic significance.

Zeus then commanded Hermes to kill Argus, which he did by lulling all one hundred eyes to sleep.

**** Maia ( partner of Zeus and mother of Hermes )

She is persuaded to release him by Odysseus ' great-grandfather, the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus in response to Athena's plea.

Washed ashore on the island of Calypso, he was compelled to remain there as her lover until she was ordered by Zeus via Hermes to release Odysseus.

In Prometheus Bound, this dynamic is transposed: Prometheus becomes the benefactor of humanity, while every character in the drama ( except for Hermes, a virtual stand-in for Zeus ) decries the Olympian as a cruel, vicious tyrant.

Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector ’ s father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp.

Many of these names appearing in the Linear B inscriptions can be found later in classical Greece like Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Hermes, Eileithyia and Dionysos, but the etymology is the only evidence of the cults.

Zeus commanded Hermes to kill Argus ; Ovid added the detail that he lulled all hundred eyes to sleep, ultimately with the story of Pan and Syrinx.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

Determined to re-attain the throne, Atreus enlists the aid of Zeus and Hermes, and has Thyestes banished from Mycenae.

In the version put forth by Euripides in his play Helen, Hera fashioned a likeness of Helen ( eidolon, εἴδωλον ) out of clouds at Zeus ' request, Hermes took her to Egypt, and Helen never went to Troy, spending the entire war in Egypt.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

* Hercules: Hercules, Megara, Hades, Pain and Panic, Philoctetes, Pegasus, the Muses, Zeus, Hera, Hermes, The Fates, Nessus, the Hydra, and Bacchus.

Zeus, discovering the crime, hurled a thunderbolt at the Titans, turning them to ashes, but Persephone ( or in some accounts Athena, Rhea, or Hermes ) managed to recover Zagreus ' heart.

Corinna, Pindar's contemporary, in a damaged fragment, mentions nine daughters of Boeotian Asopus: Aegina, Thebe, and Plataea abducted by Zeus ; Corcyra, Salamis, and Euboea abducted by Poseidon ; Sinope and Thespia ( who has been dealt with above ) abducted by Apollo ; and Tanagra abducted by Hermes.

Sophocles wrote an Inachos, probably a satyr play, which survives only in some papyrus fragments found at Oxyrhyncus and Tebtunis, Egypt ; in it Inachos is reduced from magnificence to misery through the unrequited love of Zeus for his daughter Io ; Hermes wears the cap of darkness, rendering him invisible, but plays the aulos, to the mystification of the satyrs ; Argos and Iris, as a messenger of Hera both appear, a " stranger " turns Io into a heifer at the touch of a hand, and at the end, apparently, the satyrs are freed from their bondage, to become shepherds of Inachos.

He was the primordial king in the Peloponnesus, authorized by Zeus: " Formerly Zeus himself had ruled over men, but Hermes created a confusion of human speech, which spoiled Zeus ' pleasure in this Rule ".

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

In Zeus ' battle with Gaia, Aegipan and Hermes stole back Zeus ' " sinews " that Typhon had hidden away in the Corycian Cave.

To free Io, Zeus had Argus slain by Hermes.

Unlike later writers, Homeric lines more commonly employ the feminine caesura ; an example occurs in Iliad I. 5 “... and every bird ; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment ”:

" Latona for her intrigue with Zeus was hunted by Hera over the whole earth, till she came to Delos and brought forth first Artemis, by the help of whose midwifery she afterwards gave birth to Apollo.

According to John Tzetzes the kourotrophos, or nurse of Poseidon was Arne, who denied knowing where he was, when Cronus came searching ; according to Diodorus Siculus Poseidon was raised by the Telchines on Rhodes, just as Zeus was raised by the Korybantes on Crete.

Prometheus would not be freed until Heracles, a son of Zeus, came to free him.

The fifth wife of Zeus was another aunt, Mnemosyne, from whom came the nine Muses: Clio, Euterpe, Thaleia, Melpomene, Terpsikhore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and Calliope.

The Omphalos at Delphi came to be identified as the stone which Rhea wrapped in swaddling clothes, pretending it was Zeus.

There, Zeus covered her with clouds to hide her from the eyes of his jealous wife, Hera, who nonetheless came to investigate.

Timothy Gantz has suggested that the tradition that Zeus came to Leda in the form of a swan derives from the version in which Zeus and Nemesis transformed into birds.

In Hesiod's telling of Zeus's birth, when Great Gaia came to Crete and hid the child Zeus in a " steep cave ", beneath the secret places of the earth, on Mount Aigaion with its thick forests ; there the Cretan Kouretes ' ritual clashing spears and shields were interpreted by Hellenes as intended to drown out the infant god's cries, and prevent his discovery by his cannibal father Cronus.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

Later he came to the aid of Zeus in his battle with Typhoeus, by stealing back Zeus ' stolen sinews.

Another version claims that he met Molorchos, a shepherd who had lost his son to the lion, saying that if he came back within 30 days, a ram would be sacrificed to Zeus.

: But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: " Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Zeus Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.

In the philosophized mythology of the later Classical period, Plutus is envisaged by Aristophanes as blinded by Zeus, so that he would be able to dispense his gifts without prejudice ; he is also lame, as he takes his time arriving, and winged, so he leaves faster than he came.

When he came to maturity, Zeus rewarded his nymph nurses with the horn of Amaltheia, the cornucopia or horn of plenty that is always full of food and drink.

When it came time for Sisyphus to die, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus up in Tartarus.

But Zeus came to her in the form of golden rain, and impregnated her.

Eventually, as a result of Heracles ’ pleading, Zeus came up with a plan.

It was named after Leda, who was a lover of Zeus, the Greek equivalent of Jupiter ( who came to her in the form of a swan ).

Zeus came to her in the form of a shower of gold, and impregnated her.